# Randy E. Barnett: The Harms of Drug Prohibition

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/randy-e-barnett-harms-drug-prohibition>

**By** Randy E. Barnett

**Published:** August 14, 1999

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Randy E. Barnett is a lawyer and legal theorist, and a Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and the Goldwater Institute. He also teaches constitutional law and contracts at Georgetown University Law Center.

In this video from a 1999 Institute for Economic Studies meeting in Aix-en-Provence, France, Barnett recounts his time spent as a prosecutor in Chicago, Illinois, and speaks about the harms to both drug users and civil society at large as the result of drug prohibition in America.